Saturday, March 29, 2014

Tennis News

At $5.42M Sony Open Tennis, Miami, USA

[SF] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) l (WC) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Sabine Lisicki (GER) 36 46

Sania again fail to overcome challenge of Hingis, this time with Cara... Hingis-Lisicki scored comfortable win in straight sets against Sania and Cara.
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At $10K India F5 Futures , Madurai (clay)

Singles Semi Finals
(1) Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) bt (4) Mathias BOURGUE (FRA) 64 46 62
Lucas RENARD (SWE) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 76(4) 63

Singles Final
(1) Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE) 62 60

Doubles Final
(4) Giorgio PORTALURI (ITA)/ Lucas RENARD (SWE) bt (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 64 62

In end disappointing tournament for Indians as they failed to lift any title here.
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At $15K Philippines F1 Futures, Manila

[QF] (8) Karunuday SINGH (IND,486) bt (2) Ti CHEN (TPE,266) 67(3) 63 76(5)

[SF] (8) Karunuday SINGH (IND,486) bt (WC) Patrick-John TIERRO (PHI,UNR) 62 46 62

[F] (8) Karunuday SINGH (IND,486) vs (3) Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,297)

Doubles
[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Ivo KLEC (SVK) bt Punn BODHIDATTA (THA)/ Chayanon KAEWSUTO (THA) 61 61

[QF] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Ivo KLEC (SVK) bt (2) Benjamin MITCHELL (AUS)/ Andrew WHITTINGTON (AUS) 76(1) 26 12-10

[SF] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Ivo KLEC (SVK) bt (3) Ti CHEN (TPE)/ Christopher RUNGKAT (INA) 63 76(4)

[F] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Ivo KLEC (SVK) bt (1) Ruben GONZALES (PHI)/ Sonchat RATIWATANA (THA) 64 36 10-8

In the quarters KU scored excellent comeback win over 2nd seed Ti Chen in tight match ... In the semis local wild-card Tierro stretched him to three sets ... In the final he is facing another top-300 player, Japanese Shuichi Sekiguchi for the double crown.

In the doubles KU lifts the title win Slovaks Ivo Klec beating top three pairs in their last three matches.

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